Tim M. Berra is professor emeritus of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State University, where he has been since 1972. He is also university professorial fellow at Charles Darwin University and research associate at the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, both in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. He is a three-time Fulbright Fellow to Australia and has spent approximately 9 of the past 44 years doing field work on various species of fishes throughout Australia. He has taught at the University of Papua New Guinea and has been a visiting professor at the University of Concepción, Chile, and the University of Otago, New Zealand. He received a Ph.D. in biology from Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1969. He and his wife reside in a house of his own design with 16,000 books in the library, on a 20-acre property in Amish country near Bellville, Ohio, surrounded by a lake and a stream with 44 species of fishes.